While listening to the audio commentary on Attack of the Clones, I learned a few things. I had less than half an hour to go in the film and my brother kicks me off to watch some stupid team from Chicago. Very inappropriate and uncalled for. He's taking a nap on the couch now. How rude is that!
Interleague play begins soon. St. Louis takes on Kansas City today. St. Louis has seen about 33 lineups this season. Mark Grudzielanek now has 1,000 runs scored.
Star Wars - Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith opened up with $16.5 million for midnight showings alone. That smashed the record of The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King ($8 million) and Spiderman (7 million). Both went on to gross $34.5 million and $39.4 million, respectively for their opening day. However, the box office record (until we find out today) is $40.4 million from Spiderman 2. That had showings in 4,152 theaters. Star Wars - Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith had showings in 3,661 but only an estimated 2,900 theaters showed a screening at midnight. A total of 9,400 prints were made.
It should shatter box office records across the boards. It has the midnight showing record. Industry sources are saying that opening weekend will bring in about $150 million to $160 million range, which is unprecedented. Considering that Spider-Man's record was $114.8 million. The opening day numbers were $50 million. As soon as the other numbers come out, I'll post 'em.
Evan Bayh says Bush didn't do something right. This speech was presented to the DLC.
Instead of marshaling the post-Sept. 11 "I’ll do anything you ask" attitude of Americans into a national energy policy that requires sacrifice from everyone, Bayh said, Bush told the country to go to the mall and shop.
"It is just not acceptable for a great global power to be as dependent as we are today on unstable places like Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Russia, Iran for something essential to our well-being like petroleum," he said.
"Where was the leader of our country looking the American people in the eye and saying, ‘I pledge to you that we’re going to track these criminals down and bring them to justice. I pledge to you that we will do whatever it takes to make sure our country will never again suffer a tragedy as occurred on 9/11. But now I’m going to ask each and every one of you for something more than that. I’m going to ask each and every one of you to put something back into this country to meet one of the pre-eminent challenges of our time. Why? Because it will help our economy, our finances, and more than that: It’s what’s necessary to set our children free.’"
Bayh said there was a two- or three-month period in 2001 when Americans would have done anything Bush asked.
"We let the window close," he said.
No comments:
Post a Comment